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Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)

by Adrienne Maree Brown

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Book cover for Origin (Robert Langdon, #5)

Origin (Robert Langdon, #5) by Dan Brown

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Love is not a finite emotion. We don’t have only so much to share. Our hearts create love as we need it.

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“I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

tags: identity, love, loyalty, tris

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“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
― Anonymous Greek Proverb

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“You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.”
― Max Ehrmann

tags: trees

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“If we perpetuate the same dynamics that we aim to disrupt in our movements for change, we are not interrupting power and we are not creating change-we are merely rebranding the same set of practices and the same dysfunctions.”
― Alicia Garza, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart

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“It's going to be all right, sir," Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore's silence than he had been by his weakened voice. "We're nearly there ... I can Apparate us both back ... don't worry ..."
"I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

tags: dumbledore, harry-potter, hope

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